Police are investigating the case of a woman who drove nearly 18 kilometres in the wrong direction on Highway 102 early Monday after crashing her small white car into another vehicle as she got on the highway at the Hammonds Plains exit.

“The white car struck another vehicle on the ramp, causing minor damage, and kept on going,” said an RCMP news release.

“It continued to head outbound in the inbound lanes of the highway, towards Bedford.”

As Mounties responded to the call, they heard a car of the same description “left the roadway, struck the ditch, and was facing the wrong direction,” said the release.

“This collision happened near Exit 4C (Bedford Common), nearly 18 kilometres from where the initial collision occurred. The driver and sole occupant of the vehicle was showing signs of impairment by alcohol and was arrested by a nearby member of Halifax Regional Police.”

Mounties requested that the driver take a breathalyzer test, but said that she refused.

A 24-year-old Halifax woman faces charges of impaired driving and refusing the breathalyzer and is slated to appear March 21 in Dartmouth provincial court.